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Description (anglais) : In Châlons, a crowd of 'children' besieged the agents of the droit de subvention tax. They threw rocks at the doors and windows, broke into the building and damaged several pieces of furniture. The response of the magistrates was interesting. Far from being outraged, they clearly sympathized with the protesters On 19 July, they again insisted that the royal council was misinformed: there had been no sedition, just 'a mild commotion of children. The leader was a man, named Pierre Lenoir. This was a clear case of 'parallel' action. Citizens and authorities were united in opposing a novel imposition that served neither, but their tactics were different. The magistrates fought a running legal battle of delays, appeals and arrangements for substitute payments. The population, meanwhile, exerted pressure by muttering and intimidating.